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Deaths from Earthquakes in 2008

Deaths in 2008

Deaths from Earthquakes in 2008
Date
UTC
Region Magnitude Number Killed *
2008 01 09 Northern Algeria 4.6 1
2008 01 22 Nias region, Indonesia 6.2 1
2008 02 03 Lac Kivu region, Dem. Rep. of the Congo 5.9 44
2008 02 06 West Bengal, India 4.3 1
2008 02 14 Lac Kivu region, Dem. Rep. of the Congo 5.4 1
2008 02 20 Simeulue, Indonesia 7.4 3
2008 05 12 Eastern Sichuan, China 7.9 87652
2008 05 24 Colombia 5.9 6
2008 05 25 Sichuan-Gansu border region, China 6.0 8
2008 06 06 Northern Algeria 5.5 1
2008 06 08 Greece 6.3 2
2008 06 13 Eastern Honshu, Japan 6.9 13
2008 06 17 Sichuan-Gansu border region, China 4.8 2
2008 07 08 Southern Peru 6.2 1
2008 07 15 Dodecanese Islands, Greece 6.4 1
2008 07 23 Eastern Honshu, Japan 6.8 1
2008 07 24 Sichuan-Gansu border region, China 5.7 1
2008 08 05 Sichuan-Gansu border region, China 6.0 4
2008 08 21 Myanmar-China border region 6.0 3
2008 08 30 Sichuan-Yunnan border region, China 5.9 40
Total 87786

* Includes "missing and presumed dead"; from 2008 Significant Earthquakes of the World

 


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